Backblasts

Date: 2024-11-05
AO: thegeneral
Q: Gherkin
PAX: Spud, Apples, Hard Knox, Rim Fire, Hobbyhorse, Lazlo, Robo, Hightower, Coxswain, Jenner, Summit FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WARM UP
SSH, Hillbillies, Imperial Walkers, Popeye’s Punches, Michael Phelps, WMH, Down Dog, WGS, Cobra Kai

THE THANG
The PAX broke up into 2 groups and we ran the 5th and final F3 Experimental Calculator of Election Shenanigans (FECES) model. Each team took turns picking a state out of a hat and recorded how many electoral votes that state provides. The PAX from both teams did the exercise required, with the goal of seeing which team would reach 270 votes first. The exercise rubric is 1-8 electoral votes: Burpees (133 possible)
9-14 electoral votes: Merkins (151 possible)
15-29 electoral votes: Mountain Climbers (2 legs = 1) (130 possible) 30+ electoral votes: Monkey Humpers (single count) (124 possible)

The red team was surprisingly able to claim the swing state of Pennsylvania in the first round and nabbed Texas later, but it wasn’t able to overcome blue with California and Florida. Ultimately, even after 24 (out of a maximum 25.5 rounds) neither team had reached 270 votes with blue at 269 and red at 233. Alabama (9 votes) Michigan (15 votes) and Ohio (17 votes) had yet to be counted, but we were out of time and with the alternating pattern of voting, it was impossible for red to win, so the F3 Supreme Court (SCOF3) halted the counting and declared Blue the winner.

MARY
SCOF3 said there was no time for Mary.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
• The Grunt – Saturday Nov 9, 7am, meet at the Lincoln Memorial – Q school at the Patriot this Friday
– Turkey trot on Thanksgiving Day – see Hightower for more details

COT
Politics has become very divisive and toxic. The MSM and social media have been amplifying and thriving on this division, with each side imputing evil motives to every action the other side takes. Fortunately there is more that unites us than divides us and YHC is trying to find those areas of common ground.

My hope and prayer during these next couple of weeks and in the weeks and months afterwards, is that we can all find some way to tone down the rhetoric, acknowledge the good and bad in both sides and build-on the common ground that we share.

Tags: thegeneral, Spud, Apples, Hard Knox, Rim Fire, Hobbyhorse, Lazlo, Robo, Hightower, Coxswain, Jenner, Summit

Date: 2024-11-04
AO: thepatriot
Q: Maguire
PAX: Anchorman, Couch Potato, Mulligan, citrus, CableGuy, 2 percent, SAAS, Early Bird, Booking, Wedding Singer, Ice Tea, Shake ‘n’ Bake, Coconuts, Bone, My Space, Hobbyhorse, Strange Brew, Rim Fire, Maguire, Roadhouse, FNGs: None
COUNT: 21

WARMUP: Side straddle. Itty Bitty. Imperials. Hillbillies. Pickers. Willies. Downward dog. Greatest stretch and cobra Kai…it was a moving warmups w some burpees. THE THANG:
1. Washington wall sits while partner counted to 25 Lincoln leg lifts. Rotated a few times and burpees in between.

2. Suicide Dora. Partner up.

Rd1. Rotated w partner going to 10, 20…90, 100 and back. Exercise: merkin.

Rd2. Same. Exercise. LBCs.

Rd3. Same. Exercise: squats.

Rd4: Modified. All run 10, 20….40, 50 and back. Burpee at each turn.

MARY: Flutters. Spelling. Toy Soldiers and solid stretch from Wedding Singer

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. Grunt this Saturday 0700
2. F3 merch deadline today
3. Hobbyhorse leading Q Friday and teaching those that are eagerly awaiting their VQ.

COT: Back to Basics. Life ain’t easy but we move forward. Start small. Baby steps. One foot forward. Build the blocks. Grow yourself, family, neighborhood and colleagues.

Tags: thepatriot, Anchorman, Couch Potato, Mulligan, citrus, CableGuy, 2 percent, SAAS, Early Bird, Booking, Wedding Singer, Ice Tea, Shake ‘n’ Bake, Coconuts, Bone, My Space, Hobbyhorse, Strange Brew, Rim Fire, Maguire, Roadhouse,

Date: 2024-11-04
AO: horizon-ao
Q: Disco
PAX: Attache’, Brown Bag, Magoo, Kodiak, Purple Rain
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6

WARMUP: SSH, Windmill, WMH, CP, D Dog, WGS, OYO
THE THANG: Rickey Bobby fellowship lap
4 x 300 m run
Ladder Run: 2:00/1:30/1:15/1:00/:45/:30
LBCs/plank jacks
Repeat Ladder Run
MARY: Each One Pick One: penguin crunch/flutters/box cutters/suitcases/Cup o slow Merkins/4s against the wall. ANNOUNCEMENTS: Grunt on Saturday.
COT: Sometimes we do unpleasant things without reward.

Tags: horizon-ao, Attache’, Brown Bag, Magoo, Kodiak, Purple Rain

Date: 2024-11-04
AO: hamilton
Q: Gherkin
PAX: AI, Goldfish, Popeye, Defiance, Jag
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARM UP
SSH, Hillbillies, Imperial Walkers, Popeye’s Punches, Michael Phelps, WMH, Down Dog, WGS, Cobra Kai

THE THANG
PAX broke up into 2 groups. Each team took turns picking a state out of a hat and recorded how many electoral votes that state provides. The PAX from both teams did the exercise required. The exercise rubric is 1-6 electoral votes: Blockees
7-11 electoral votes: Overhead press
12-29 electoral votes: Chest Press
30+ electoral votes: Goblet Squats

For this run of the F3 Estimator C of Election Shenanigans (FECES) model, red jumped out to an early lead, but blue was able to capture California, Texas and Florida, ending the count with a commanding lead of 270 to 169 after only 20 rounds.

MARY
F3 Supreme Court said we were out of time.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
• The Grunt – Saturday Nov 9, 7am, meet at the Lincoln Memorial – today is the last day to order an F3 shirt / sweatshirt.

COT
Politics has become very divisive and toxic. The MSM and social media have been amplifying and thriving on this division, with each side imputing evil motives to every action the other side takes. Fortunately there is more that unites us than divides us and YHC is trying to find those areas of common ground.

My hope and prayer during these next couple of weeks and in the weeks and months afterwards, is that we can all find some way to tone down the rhetoric, acknowledge the good and bad in both sides and build-on the common ground that we share.

Tags: hamilton, AI, Goldfish, Popeye, Defiance, Jag

Date: 2024-11-04
AO: thefarm
Q: Infinity
PAX: F-No, Firehead, Sparky_The Farm
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WarmUp: Imperial Walkers, Michael Phelps, Willie Mays Hayes, Piano Tappers, LBACs with leg raised, and Mosey.

The Thang: Deconstructed Burpees! This exercise was invented in 1939 by US physiologist Royal Huddleston Burpee Sr., who used it in the burpee test to assess fitness. Burpee earned a PhD in applied physiology from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1940 and created the “burpee” exercise as part of his PhD thesis as a quick and simple fitness test, which may be used as a measure of agility and coordination.

This workout consists of all the movements of a burpee, but isolated and stretched out, except at the end when we do actual burpees. AMRAP:
– 20 Squat Thrusts
– 20 Hand-release Merkins
– 20 Jump Squats
– 20 OH Claps, IC
– 5 Burpees
– 60m sprint

Mary: Australian Snow Angels, Single-Leg Glute Bridges, Sweat Angels, X-Factor Crunches, Freddie Mercuries, Flutter Kicks, Side Crunches, and American Hammers.

Announcements:
– F3 the Grunt CSAUP Saturday, 11/9, at Lincoln Memorial 0700. – Pad Thai will Q Wednesday and Firehead will Q Friday.

CoT: “Nothing is particularly hard if you break it down into small jobs.” – Henry Ford.

Tags: thefarm, F-No, Firehead, Sparky_The Farm